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'Opportunity to reset': How MPs are urging the Treasury to use tax policy to drive green recovery
'Opportunity to reset': How MPs are urging the Treasury to use tax policy to drive green recovery

Environmental Audit Committee Chair Philip Dunne talks to BusinessGreen about the need for 'a tax system fit for net zero Britain' and the right time to judge whether the government has delivered on its green recovery promises

  • Taxation
  • 17 February 2021
Clarity of vision will separate short-term recovery from long-term renewal
Clarity of vision will separate short-term recovery from long-term renewal

Businesses, government and NGOs need to be visionary, open and collaborative to deliver a pandemic recovery that paves the way to a greener future

  • Politics
  • 01 February 2021
Business leaders urge Prime Minister to pursue climate solutions with same urgency as Covid vaccines
Business leaders urge Prime Minister to pursue climate solutions with same urgency as Covid vaccines

Group of leading climate scientists, business figures, and civil society leaders publish open letter to Prime Minister Boris Johnson urging the government to beef up response to escalating climate crisis

  • Policy
  • 12 January 2021
'Move from ambition to action': Government urged to ramp up green policies and spending in 2021
'Move from ambition to action': Government urged to ramp up green policies and spending in 2021

Green Alliance warns that major decarbonisation policy gaps must be filled next year if government is to achieve its bold 2030 carbon reduction target

  • Policy
  • 29 December 2020
Report: Cash-strapped councils climate plans hamstrung by inadequate government support
Report: Cash-strapped councils climate plans hamstrung by inadequate government support

A lack of funding and strategic support from central government is making it difficult for local authorities to support the drive for net zero emissions, imperiling the entire national mission, a new Green Alliance report argues

  • Policy
  • 04 December 2020
Are Amazon and Apple 'dodging responsibility' for the escalating e-waste crisis?
Are Amazon and Apple 'dodging responsibility' for the escalating e-waste crisis?

Environmental Audit Commitee argues electronic and retail giants need to join their brick and mortar rivals in contributing more to a circular economy, but the tech powerhouses insist they are leading efforts to tackle global e-waste mountain

  • Waste
  • 26 November 2020
UK infrastructure plans 'unfit for net zero', green groups warn
UK infrastructure plans 'unfit for net zero', green groups warn

As the government gears up to release its National Infrastructure Strategy, Green Alliance warns current plans will not nearly suffice

  • Infrastructure
  • 11 November 2020
Why the Environment Bill must come back with a bang not a whimper
Why the Environment Bill must come back with a bang not a whimper

With the long-awaited Environment Bill returning to parliament next week, Green Alliance's Ruth Chambers sets out what Parliament's priorities should be

  • Legislation
  • 28 October 2020
Align digital technologies and green policy to deliver net zero, government urged
Align digital technologies and green policy to deliver net zero, government urged

Although crucial to net zero, uptake of digital technologies is being hamstrung by policy shortfalls, underinvestment, and skills shortages, Green Alliance warns

  • Technology
  • 20 October 2020
Net Zero Festival: The political case for net zero
Net Zero Festival: The political case for net zero

VIDEO: Green Alliance executive director Shaun Spiers argues that while climate action has broken into the political mainstream, many politicians have yet to fully comprehend the scale of the net zero challenge ahead

  • Politics
  • 14 October 2020
Reform VAT to help drive green home upgrades, campaigners urge
Reform VAT to help drive green home upgrades, campaigners urge

Green Alliance calls on government to end £2bn VAT subsidy on gas, which benefits well off, to help fund warm homes for poorer households

  • BusinessGreen
  • 25 September 2020
Labour steps up push for 2030 petrol and diesel car sales ban
Labour steps up push for 2030 petrol and diesel car sales ban

The opposition joins Greenpeace and Green Alliance in warning the government should introduce a ban of fossil-fuel cars by 2030 if it wants to meet its 2050 emissions target

  • Automotive
  • 18 September 2020
'What's your strategy for net zero?': Mark Carney ushers in new era for MP environment group
'What's your strategy for net zero?': Mark Carney ushers in new era for MP environment group

Former Bank of England Governor addresses relaunch of the All Party Parliamentary Group for the Environment, for which Green Alliance is to be secretariat

  • Politics
  • 17 September 2020
Brexit: October trade talks deadline stokes fears for environment
Brexit: October trade talks deadline stokes fears for environment

Green figures slam growing prospect of no-deal Brexit as 'seriously bad' for environment and COP26 climate summit

  • Politics
  • 07 September 2020
Green expert group to lead UK tax reform project
Green expert group to lead UK tax reform project

TransformTax initiative spearheaded by Green Alliance to assess how UK tax system could be better used to benefit environment and drive low carbon lifestyles

  • BusinessGreen
  • 03 August 2020
Let's stop tinkering with tax and make it a force for environmental and social good
Let's stop tinkering with tax and make it a force for environmental and social good

The Treasury’s net zero review in the autumn is the perfect opportunity to reconsider a tax system fit for a zero carbon future, argues Green Alliance's Libby Peake

  • Taxation
  • 28 July 2020
Project speed? UK infrastructure pipeline 'not net zero aligned', warn green groups
Project speed? UK infrastructure pipeline 'not net zero aligned', warn green groups

UK currently staring at a £14bn gap in the green infrastructure investment needed for net zero, warns Green Alliance

  • Politics
  • 29 June 2020
'Go for it': Climate advisors urge government to deliver green recovery blitz
'Go for it': Climate advisors urge government to deliver green recovery blitz

Covid-19 stimulus plan must prioritise green building upgrades, tree planting, fossil fuel taxes, and skills training, advises Committee on Climate Change

  • Net Zero Now
  • 24 June 2020
Covid-19 has stymied the war on waste, but now is the perfect time to fix the system
Covid-19 has stymied the war on waste, but now is the perfect time to fix the system

The case for tackling throwaway culture is stronger now than ever, argues Green Alliance's Libby Peake

  • Waste
  • 17 June 2020
Zoom in on Net Zero - with Green Alliance's Shaun Spiers
Zoom in on Net Zero - with Green Alliance's Shaun Spiers

VIDEO: Green Alliance executive director joins BusinessGreen editor-in-chief James Murray to discuss net zero, COP26, Brexit, and delivering a green recovery from Covid-19

  • Net Zero Now
  • 08 June 2020
We need fresh thinking about the role of digital technologies in our food system
We need fresh thinking about the role of digital technologies in our food system

Covid-19 has highlighted the shortcomings of our food supply chains, but technology can help, argues Green Alliance's Imogen Cripps

  • Supply chain
  • 04 June 2020
How a greener homes drive could hold the key to over 150,000 post-Covid jobs
How a greener homes drive could hold the key to over 150,000 post-Covid jobs

Two major new reports today have highlighted how relatively modest policy reforms and financial innovations could turbocharge UK decarbonisation efforts and provide thousands of construction jobs

  • Policy
  • 20 May 2020
'A good time to tax fossil fuels': Experts react to plummeting oil price
'A good time to tax fossil fuels': Experts react to plummeting oil price

Low oil price likely to stick around for some time prompting fundamental change to energy investment that could accelerate net zero, experts suggest

  • Energy
  • 21 April 2020
'Fearful for the future': Environmental charities urge government to beef-up £750m aid package
'Fearful for the future': Environmental charities urge government to beef-up £750m aid package

The Wildlife Trusts and Green Alliance among groups warning aid package not enough to protect the struggling sector amid urgent climate and environmental crises

  • Politics
  • 09 April 2020
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